Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread James Carrier
Try GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO root@'%' IDENTIFIED BY 'mypassword' WITH GRANT OPTION; Or you could always do a straight INSERT INTO user VALUES('%','root',password('mypassword'), 'Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y','Y'); james --- Nick Wilson wrote: Well, I'm in !! Now I'

RE: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Gurhan Ozen
TECTED] Subject: Re: lost root password trouble -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Gurhan Ozen declared > Are your databases in /var/lib/mysql ?IT is trying to startup with reading > databaseses from that path but i think it can't.. > Also check the error

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 sql * and then James Carrier declared > It's OK Nick - it started. It's just writing that to the terminal > window. Hit enter to get the command prompt back (or ctrl-c if that > doesn't work). Ahhh,,, what a donkey (me not you) of course it 'ha

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then James Carrier declared > Do you have permissions over the mysql directories? Certainly do. > Can you start safe_mysqld as root? (purely for problem solving > purposes ;) Yep, well at least before it 'hangs' > And of course - are yo

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread James Carrier
Ah... Do you have permissions over the mysql directories? Can you start safe_mysqld as root? (purely for problem solving purposes ;) And of course - are your databases in /var/lib/mysql? james Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > * and then Gerald Clark

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread James Carrier
It's OK Nick - it started. It's just writing that to the terminal window. Hit enter to get the command prompt back (or ctrl-c if that doesn't work). james Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > * and then James Carrier declared > >>It'll be something

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Scott Helms
ack in with the root password and all of your other accounts are unaffected. Scott Helms - Original Message - From: "Nick Wilson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 1:32 PM Subject: Re: lost root password trouble > -

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Gurhan Ozen declared > Are your databases in /var/lib/mysql ?IT is trying to startup with reading > databaseses from that path but i think it can't.. > Also check the error log file to see what's going on. Sounds reasonable, 2 quest

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then Gerald Clark declared > >Well, that's certainly progress of sorts :-) > >It's just 'hanging' now. It says 'starting mysqld daemon with databases > >from /var/lib/mysql' and just hangs > > > It just wrote that message over the comma

RE: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Gurhan Ozen
2002 1:33 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: lost root password trouble -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then James Carrier declared > It'll be something like: > > /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables Well, that'

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Gerald Clark
Nick Wilson wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > > >* and then James Carrier declared > >>It'll be something like: >> >>/usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables >> > >Well, that's certainly progress of sorts :-) >It's just 'hanging' now. It s

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread Nick Wilson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 * and then James Carrier declared > It'll be something like: > > /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables Well, that's certainly progress of sorts :-) It's just 'hanging' now. It says 'starting mysqld daemon with da

Re: lost root password trouble

2002-04-30 Thread James Carrier
Hi Nick It'll be something like: /usr/bin/safe_mysqld --defaults-file=/etc/my.cnf --skip-grant-tables Cheers james Nick Wilson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi everyone, > I have searched the archives and read the manual but am at a loss as to > how to get my